Expert Details
Psychology: Clinical and Organisational Applications and Research; Staff Training.
ID: 727969
United Kingdom
She has absolved postdoctoral education in methodology, psychotherapy and neuropsychology, again applying this in a wide variety of settings.
Dra. Expert has worked in the Netherlands, Germany and the United Kingdom (of Great Britain and Northern Ireland); she has pursued further education and attended/presented at conferences in the UK, Netherlands, Belgium, Germany, Spain and Greece. She speaks fluent Dutch and English, has good knowledge of German and French, and reasonably knowledge of Spanish and Italian.
Please note that Dra. Expert has concluded her basic education as a medical scientist, but she is not a medical practitioner.
Although familiar and competent in work relating to children, she does prefer working with adult clients (between 18 years until totally ancient, without upper age cut-off). Her experience included working with very old people and very (cognitively) impaired people. With respect to the very impaired client population she prefers working with or through professional or family (or friends) carers.
Education
| Year | Degree | Subject | Institution |
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| Year: 2004 | Degree: Full Practitioner Membership Division of Neuropsychology | Subject: Neuropsychology | Institution: British Psychological Society-Division of Neuropsychology (UK) |
| Year: 2009 | Degree: Accreditation as CBT Psychotherapist | Subject: Cognitive Behavioural Psychotherapy | Institution: British Association of Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapy (UK) |
| Year: 1994 | Degree: Advanced Groupwork Diploma | Subject: Groupwork (sociological model) | Institution: University of Greenwich (UK) |
| Year: 1983 | Degree: Propaedeuse Degree in Medicine | Subject: Medicine | Institution: State University Groningen (NL) |
| Year: 1979 | Degree: Practitioner Doctorate | Subject: Psychology (clinical, organisational, developmental) | Institution: State University Groningen (NL) |
Work History
| Years | Employer | Title | Department |
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| Years: 2007 to Present | Employer: Undisclosed | Title: Clinical and Organisational Psychologist; Neuropsychologist; Psychotherapist | Department: |
Responsibilities:Dra. Expert is the proprietor and main clinician of the practice, combining clinical and organisational services with emphasis on complex psychological issues in adults. |
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| Years | Employer | Title | Department |
| Years: 1994 to 2007 | Employer: Sussex Partnership NHS Trust (UK) | Title: Consultant Clinical Psychologist | Department: Clinical Psychology Services to Elderly People |
Responsibilities:Dra. Expert was the head of the speciality and main clinician responsible for organising, managing and delivering this specialised service, which offered the full range of psychological services (inc. psychotherapy and neuropsychology) to a population of older people with significant mental health problems, often compounded by age-related other health and social difficulties. She also managed all psychological staff within the speciality and provided clinical supervision to a variety of health professions.Applied research and the provision of (multidisciplinary) staff training was an integral part of the service |
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| Years | Employer | Title | Department |
| Years: 1991 to 1994 | Employer: Maidstone Priority Care NHS Trust (UK) | Title: Clinical Psychologist | Department: Clinical Psychology Services |
Responsibilities:Dra. Expert was one of three clinical psychologists, providing a full range of psychological services (inc. neuropsychological assessment and psychotherapy); she also provided staff consultancy and training and developed a super-specialist approach to the care of people with advanced dementia. She developed and delivered the relevant staff training, and published her research on this project.During this employment Dra. Expert replaced her manager (head of speciality) for nearly 15 months. During this period she was responsible for all organisation, managing and delivery of the service. She also provided clinical supervision to (trainee) clinical psychologists, (trainee) medical specialists, social workers, nurses and occupational therapists. |
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| Years | Employer | Title | Department |
| Years: 1989 to 1991 | Employer: West Cumbria Health Authority (UK) | Title: Clinical Psychologist | Department: Department of Clinical Psychology, West Cumberland Hospital |
Responsibilities:Dra. Expert provided psychological assessment and intervention to adult clients with significant mental health problems. Specifically she provided psychotherapeutic interventions to casualties of international conflicts (World War I and II, Indian Independence War, Korean War, Falkland War, Gulf War etc.)She was responsible for initiating and developing psychological services to older people with mental health problems and/or cognitive impairment, and she was a founder member of the Cumbrian branch of the Alzheimer's Disease Society. She taught on psychological subjects to a variety of health professionals and supervised other professionals on their psychology-based interventions. Dra. Expert developed a multidisciplinary model of clinical approach to clients with a complex presentation and she was chair of the first multidiciplinary mental health team in Cumbria. She provided several guest lectures to the University of Newcastle (UK) and the School of Nursing in Whitehaven (Cumbria, UK) |
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| Years | Employer | Title | Department |
| Years: 1984 to 1989 | Employer: Private Practice Groningen (NL) | Title: Clinical Psychologist | Department: |
Responsibilities:Dra. Expert provided mainly specialist psychological assessment (both clinical and organisational) and interventions (psychotherapy and organisational consultations) to individual clients and corporate organisations. |
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| Years | Employer | Title | Department |
| Years: 1982 to 1989 | Employer: Dutch Red Cross | Title: Helper/Education Officer, Public Relations Officer | Department: Groningen (NL) |
Responsibilities:Apart from her general function as a Red Cross Helper (allround duties providing medical assistance in exceptional/disaster circumstances), Dra. Expert served as a teacher (psychological aspects of emergency experiences) and education officer, coordinating and managing members' ongoing training in first (and second) emergency medical assistance. In her last year of engagement she also served as the public relations officer, with emphasis on member recruitment and promoting the Red Cross as an assistance organisation (e.g. through local business visits and media coverage). |
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| Years | Employer | Title | Department |
| Years: 1980 to 1982 | Employer: State University of Groningen (NL) | Title: Lecturer/Tutor in Social Medicine | Department: Faculty of Medicine |
Responsibilities:Dra. Expert lectured on 'social medical' models (e.g. occupational applications, medical aspects of heavy industry, epidemiology etc.) and tutored one cohort of medical students in their social-medical thesis (examples of subjects: urban v. rural residence and their impact on non-specific lung diseases; impact of noise and fumes on psychological health in workers in the plastics industry).During this time Dra. Expert also carried out her research on the viability of the application of a British-style system of student tutoring in the Medical faculty of Groningen University. |
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Government Experience
| Years | Agency | Role | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| Years: 1984 to 1984 | Agency: Provincial Government Groningen (NL) | Role: Locum Logistics Manager | Description: Running the logistics department during illness absence of original manager; main duties the overall supervision and leading of various logistics departments (inc. police and fire department); biggest challenge handling the crisis around the breach of a sea-lock (crisis had to be mastered within 6 hours in order to prevent major salt-water flooding) |
Career Accomplishments
| Associations / Societies |
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| Dra. Expert is registered by the Health Professions Council in Great Britain. She is an active member of the British Psychological Society (Division of Clinical Psychology and Division of Neuropsychology, Faculty of Psychologists Specialising in Work with Older People). She is accredited by the British Association of Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapy as a psychotherapist (and through this accreditation a member of the European Association of Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapy. |
| Licenses / Certifications |
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| Registration as a practitioner psychologist (HPC) BABCP Accredited psychotherapist BPS FPM Neuropsychology |
| Professional Appointments |
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| Dra. Expert has served as the chair of the Community Mental Health Team in Cumbria (1990-1991); she has served on various committees of the Faculty of Psychologists Specialising in Work with Older People (PSIGE), as branch secretary (1994), conference organiser (1993 and 2006), and Newsletter Editor (1998-2001). At present she plays a leading role in the proposal of a special group/subdivision of independent practitioners within the British Psychological Society. |
| Publications and Patents Summary |
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| Dra. Expert has delivered conference presentations and published papers and conference posters on a variety of subjects, e.g. transculturation of tutoring methods, sensory stimulation of cognitively impaired people, team approach to very complex behavioural problems and/or personality disorders, and clinical supervision styles |
Additional Experience
| Expert Witness Experience |
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| Dra. Expert has testified to independent review panels (charged with investigating serious complaints against health professionals), and at coroner's hearings. |
| Training / Seminars |
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| Dra. Expert has developed and delivered seminars on the use (and not) of personal computers in private practice for psychologists. She has also lectured and tutored advanced university students in social-medical subjects. Dra. Expert has introduced a complex system of sensory stimulation for people with very severe cognitive impairment (Snoezelen); she has developed a (direct hands-on) care staff training programme and delivered this in various institutions; she has also passed this technique on to other psychologists and relevant health professionals. Dra Expert has taught formal courses on the nature and psychological approaches to dementia to postgraduate as well as graduate psychology students; she has also taught professional ethics in connection with complex clinical work Dra. Expert regularly develops and delivers 'tailor-made' approaches to complex behavioural problems in residential/nursing environments; her speciality is approaches to difficult behaviour in people with cognitive impairment and/or personality disorders with emphasis on equipping direct caring/nursing staff with practical skills to handle these challenges ethically and without negative impact on their own psychological health. |
| Other Relevant Experience |
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| Dra. Expert can work in four languages: Dutch, English, French and German. She also speaks some Spanish and Italian. |
Language Skills
| Language | Proficiency |
|---|---|
| English | Dra. Expert speaks English as a foreign language. She has lived and worked in the UK for 20 years and her English is now fluent |
| Dutch | This is Dra. Expert' native language. She speaks standard Dutch (NL), can fluently follow Flemish (some of her relatives are Flemish speaking Belgians), and can follow spoken Afrikaans. |
| French and German | Dra. Expert has sufficient French to carry out psychotherapy and consultancy work in this language. She has translated one book from French into English and Dutch Dra. Expert is fluent in standard German. She can also follow the Austrian and Swiss variety of German fluently and has some ability to follow Yiddish through combination of German and (elementary) knowledge of Hebrew. She has in the past professionally translated German computer manuals into Dutch and English. She has worked in total about six months in Germany, and she grew up less than 10 kms from the German border, giving her a life-long exposure to the German language. During her work in Britain she has translated written materials from German to English for the benefit of her (monolingual) British colleagues and employers. |
| Spanish and Italian | Dra. Expert has active and passive knowledge of Spanish and Italian to a degree of maintaining a conversation and reading books and articles in the original. Although her mastery of these languages is not fluent, during a recent conference in Spain, she was able to participate in the Spanish-language programme. Her Italian is standard Italian, and her Spanish is the Castellano variety. |
Fields of Expertise
adult, adult psychology, behavior, behavioral problem, behavioral profiling, behavioral psychology, behavioral science, clinical psychology, cognition, cognitive process, cognitive psychology, memory, memory disorder, memory recall, memory rehabilitation, posttraumatic stress disorder, psychiatric trauma, psychology, psychotherapy, trauma, clinical neuropsychology, neuropsychology, neuropsychology assessment, suicide prevention, sexuality, adolescent development, psychosexual behavior, geriatric psychiatry, pediatric psychology, experimental psychology, cross-cultural psychology, child psychology, adolescent psychology, psychology research, perceptual research, observational research, analytical research, sexual dysfunction, consumer product ergonomics, sociology, learning theory, human development, organizational development, biodynamics, work load, cognitive science, clinical research, comfort, sensory perception, research, mental disorder, science, workplace environment engineering, ergonomics, diagnostics